An excellent resource for finding where our ancestors lived “once upon a time” is this website: e-mapping Victorian Cheshire: Cheshire’s Tithe Maps Online. In 1842 John and Frances BROADHURST lived in Hale, Cheshire. John and Frances were my 2nd Great Grandparents.  Their house was situated about where the asterisk is shown below and all the land rented by John Broadhurst, at [...]

(click here to see a map of the places noted below) John Broadhurst, the son of William and Mary Broadhurst, was born in Chelford, Cheshire in 1812. He was born Monday 27 January and christened on Sunday 23 February. Sometime before 1839 he moved about 8 miles northeast to the village of Bramhall where he farmed (according to [...]